Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics best record in the West and when he knew just what he was doing. Maybury's professionalism, together with that of Cochem, another Wisconsin . athlete, was unflinchingly exposed by the authori– ties at Madison - a course of procedure which was one of the most effective things that was done toward checking undergraduate professionalism in the Middle West. Kranzlein was another phe– nomenon who came up out of the West during the latter nineties - to be acquired, as soon as his prowess had been demonstrated at Chicago, by the University of Pennsylvania. Of late years the track athletes of the Middle West have more than come into their own. At the conference meet in 1903, Blair of Chicago won the hundred in 9! seconds, and Hahn of Michigan captured the two-twenty in 21f seconds. In the spring of 1904 the Michigan team fairly swept the field at the Philadelphia relay games - Hahn beating Schick of Harvard, the fastest man in the East, the relay racers beating the fastest Eastern dis– tance men, Schule of Michigan taking the high hurdles, while the shot-put was disposed of by Rose of Michigan with his world's record. And since the formation of the Conference Association the amateur status of Middle Western college track athletes has been as carefully preserved as that of runners in the older colleges of the East. In the Far West college track athletics were